East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michican State University, 1971. First Edition. Early issue of this student journal produced by the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, whose aim was "to present information and opinions of and about Africa, and the Diaspora" (p.2). This issue notably contains the full text..... More
New York: American Youth Congress, 1940. First Edition. Events of the Sixth American Youth Congress and the second to be held during the Hitler-Stalin pact period. SEIDMAN A156: "Noncontroversial topics included civil liberties, the proposed American Youth Act, and opposition to poll taxes in the South." Octavo (21cm.); pictorial staplebound..... More
New York: American Youth for Democracy, 1946. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 23pp. Clean, fresh and unmarked, Very Good or better. On post-war campus overcrowding as a result of the GI Bill of Rights. Illustrated throughout in a light, mid-century style. SEIDMAN A-59. More
[See Sharp Press], [1993?]. First Edition. Technical and logistical guide to underground broadcasting, with quotes from Bakunin. Bufe is the founder of the anarchist See Sharp Press. Revised and reissued in 1998 with the See Sharp imprint; this first printing appears relatively uncommon. [Published without imprint]. Staple-bound pamphlet; illustrated covers..... More
Los Angeles: Haymarket, 1976. Stapled self-wraps; [12pp]. Fine. House organ of the The Haymarket, a socialist community co-operative bookstore and coffee house located on Parkview Street in Los Angeles. Publication details uncertain, though this issue announces an expansion "to include fiction, poetry, criticism, and anything else of interest." Cover illustration..... More
[Exeter, NH: Philips Exeter Academy Student Peace Group, N.D. but ca.1962]. A curious list of questions designed to prepare demonstrators or debaters for issues they might be challenged with in a public forum. The sheets are undated, but appear to be compiled around the time of the Cuban Missle Crisis..... More
New York: New York Civil Liberties Union, 1969. First Edition. Small quarto (28cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 159pp. Moderate cover wear, including small scuff to front cover; text clean, tight and unmarked - a Very Good copy. Highly critical evaluation of police action during the Columbia student protests of 1968. There..... More
Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, [1929]. Fifth Edition. Epic poem by proletarian author and member of the far left Litfront faction Aleksandr Bezymenskii devoted to the Komsomol (abbreviation of the Kommunisticheskii Soyuz Molodyozhi), the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, first established in 1918. All early editions of..... More
![Kampfreime [cover title: Kampf Reime]. BIBLIO-WEAPONRY, Uwe WANDREY, GERMANY](/pictures/medium/47929.jpg?v=1641872522)
Hamburg: Quer-Verlag, [1969]. Second, Expanded edition. Collection of rhymed chants first issued by the author's publishing house Quer-Verlag in 1968 for members of the German Student Movement and the protests staged that year. The author, the son of a dock worker, was himself a member of the leftist literary group..... More
New York: Young Socialist, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound, printed paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; slight discoloration and a few brief, closed tears to wrapper edges; Very Good. Single monthly issue in original wrappers. Articles on the rehabilitation of Stalin; Polish pro-Democracy movements; the Mexcian..... More
New York: Young Socialist, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound, printed paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; slight discoloration and a few brief, closed tears to wrapper edges; Very Good. Single monthly issue in original wrappers. Articles on the YSA on campus; Hugo Blanco in Peru; reprint..... More
Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound, pictorial wrappers; 72pp. Mild external dusting; a clean, unmarked copy, VG to NF. Preface by Robert Barrett. More
![Abas. Issues #7,8,9 (May, [Jun/July], "Late Summer," 1969). Michael J. BUCKLEY](/pictures/medium/17903.jpg?v=1641872096)
Newark: Abas Magazine, 1969. First Edition. Scarce, short-lived underground paper produced by a Newark, New Jersey high-school collective. Masthead of no. 7 suggests that it is the first issue to be produced by offset in tabloid format; earlier issues were (apparently) mimeographed and sold only by mail. The masthead indicates..... More
![Spain 1936 [...] Findings of an International Youth Commission. Joseph CADDEN](/pictures/medium/25417.jpg?v=1641872197)
[New York: International Youth Commission, n.d. (ca. 1936)]. First Edition. Account of the Spanish Civil War based on the Commission's travels through that country in 1936. Organizations represented within the Commission include the National Student Federation of America, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada, Young Communist League, American League Against..... More
[Oakland]: Campus Coalitions for Human Rights and Social Justice, [1995]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pale greyish-pink printed staplebound wrappers; 14pp. A bit cockled from exposure to damp, else Very Good and sound. More
N.p. Newsweek, Ink, N.d. [1970]. First Thus. Quarto (28cm); staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 12pp; illus. Single horizontal fold (as issued?), else Near Fine. Uncommon offprint from the issue of November 23, 1970, covering the ongoing anti-war and free speech movements on the Berkeley campus. Four pages of color photographic illustrations. (Thanks..... More
New York: Youth Publishers, [1934]. First Thus. 12mo (18cm.); original orange decorative staplebound wrappers; 47pp. A hint of dust-soiling else About Fine. More
Ann Arbor: CHIPS, [1971]. Mimeograph. 22cm; yellow stock, illustrated in red and blue, titled in black; 12pp. including covers; illustrated, Near Fine copy. 15 point program explaining the wants of the organization. Includes full page order sheet for Youth Liberation materials such as pamphlets, buttons, posters back issues and t-shirts..... More
![President Roosevelt Takes His Mask Off [drop title]. YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE COMMUNIST PARTY,...](/pictures/medium/28016.jpg?v=1641872239)
Chicago: Illinois State Committee, Communist Party, Young Communist League, n.d., ca. 1940. First Edition. Attack on President Roosevelt after an address delivered to the American Youth congress on February 10, 1940, in which FDR labelled the Soviet Union a dictatorship. In retaliation, the broadside here calls FDR a war monger..... More
![Cover title] L.R.Y. Sing. COUNTERCULTURE, GREATER WASHINGTON AREA FEDERATION OF LIBERAL RELIGIOUS...](/pictures/medium/43148.jpg?v=1641872418)
Washington, DC? Greater Washington Area Federation of Liberal Religious Youth, 1962. First Thus. Collection of lyrics of religious, labor, and popular songs, issued by the LRY, the youth branch of the Unitarian Universalist Association, formed in 1953 by combining the American Unitarian Youth and the Universalist Youth Fellowship. The LRY's..... More
[Lebanon, TN: 1914]. Cumberland University, established in 1842 about 40 miles west of Nashiville, is one of the South's oldest liberal arts universities. Its law school, established 10 years later, was the first in Tennessee and the first law school west of the Appalachians. This broadside announces a student rally..... More
Washington: USNSA [United States National Student Association], 1971. First Edition. Collection of essays on educational reform, including contributions by Carl rogers, Rick Kean, Gerald Farber, James Nixon, Peter Marin, and others. Octavo (23cm). Original printed wrappers; 298pp. Ownership signature to front cover and title page; mild external wear and soil;..... More
New Orleans: Black Collegiate Services, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. [March/April 1973] Quarto (28cm). Pictorial red wrappers, 52pp, illus. Covers minimally rubbed, interior pages clean. About Near Fine. Articles include: The Atlanta University Center Controversy; Interview with Amiri Baraka; Sickle Cell Anemia; Cultural Dynamics: Instructions for Wrapping the Hair plus..... More
[Cambridge]: Africa Research Group, 1971. Reprint. Octavo (21.5cm.); original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; 12pp. Fine. Reprint series no. 5. More
Washington DC: Souther Regional Council, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28cm); gray stapled wrappers, titled in brown with die-cut window title display in black; 46pp.;minor corner bend upper front cover; one library stamp to cover; notation to upper corner reads: "Negroes, Education"' about Near Fine. "The Southern Regional Council..... More
